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Senator calls condition of Oklahoma roads 'life threatening,' says …
Related News. Pickens says town hall meeting at Oklahoma State will be his next-to last in a college setting. October 28th, 2009 Pickens: OSU town hall will be among his lastOKLAHOMA CITY — Billionaire energy magnate T. Boone Pickens says a town-hall meeting planned … August 16th, 2009 GOP senator: People have lost confidence in gov’tWASHINGTON — An Oklahoma senator says the angry tone of the health care debate is the result of people losing confidence in government. … read more…

Help to speed up recovery from surgery, injury and scars - Amoils.com
The team at Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation has discovered that a protein called histone is responsible for much of the damage during these traumas. They say they have found a specific type of antibody that can block the ability of … If you want to read more about this go to www.news.bbc.co.uk/health. And if you are going to be undergoing surgery in the near future, make sure you build up your own immune system and follow the tips above for a quicker recovery from … read more…

Novartis Says On Track To Deliver US Vaccine Order - Health News …
Eyewitness News 5 Team … The Basel-based company said it already has delivered more than 7.5 million doses of vaccine for the A(H1N1) flu that the World Health Organization vaccines declared a pandemic in June. … read more…

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Carter Sinclair News Treating Traumas: Discovery By OMRF Scientists
Carter Sinclair News: A discovery by scientists at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation could help save lives threatened by traumatic injuries like those sustained in car crashes or on the ba… read more…

Fat States, Fit States: Where Are You?
Where do you live? In what town or region? Among what sorts of people?

If you have to battle your weight, do you realize that the city or state you reside in may be a factor?

Your en… read more…

Why Parents Don’t Want Obama to Address their Children
Reactions run the gamut but more typically hang on the one of two poles. Those against it generally agree it is not very timely in the light of recent controversies over health care. Those who think i… read more…

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Health Highlights: Oct. 28, 2009 (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay: read more…

Across the USA News from every state (USA Today)
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Coburn: White House Bid to Marginalize Critics, Fox News Backfiring (Fox News)
The Oklahoma Republican senator wrote in a column that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s failed attempt last week to round up enough votes to pass a $247 billion plan to shield doctors from steep Medicare cuts shows the administration needs to get serious about the deficit — and lay off its critics. read more…

Resolved Question: Would you volunteer your kids for this?
The US Secretary of Health & Human Services signed a decree granting legal immunity to vaccine makers for their swine flu vaccines. (In other words, if you die your family can’t sue.)

Why on earth would they start testing possible vaccines on little kids? A quick Google search will turn it up. It’s been reported on quite a few different news sites.

They will start in Oklahoma City with children ages 3 to 8. They can’t possibly know that a vaccine churned out that fast won’t have lasting effects. Would you trust this to be safe?

Resolved Question: Chemo & Radiation…Yes or No?
Mid March I recv’d a phone call that my Father who lives out of state. Had been hospitalized and was not expected to make it. My brother and I arrived at the hospital within 24 hrs and was met by his Dr who immediately told us he had pneumonia and because of his dementia and alcoholism was going to call in the state to take custody of him if we didn’t want to. Please keep in mind we were unaware of any health issues with him. The next day we hired an attorney, day after that appeared before a judge and gained guardianship. After 1 week in the hospital and 4 weeks in a skilled nursing facility we prepared him for the move back to California with us. Over a 6 week time frame I made 3 trips to Oklahoma. I contacted UC Irvine Research Center for Aging and Demential before we moved him. Scheduled his appts for the week after the move. Obtained a new primary care Dr. The week following the move he saw his new Dr-she ordered a Brain CT, did a chest X-Ray and blood work. (Did I mention he has diabetes?) His tests came back as follows: CT-revealed moderate dementia and a previous stroke. Blood work showed 3rd stage kidney failure. Chest X-Ray showed a 2.7 x 2.0 mass causing concern for maliginacy. She referred him to a lung specialist who saw him 3 days later who ordered a Pet Scan. The next week the Pet Scan came back indicating multiple tumors in left lung. Colon, bladder, bowel, 3 ribs, 1 vertebre, invasion of the chest wall and his tonsils. The next week a biopsey was done and 8 days ago I was told that he has extended small cell lung cancer undifferentiated. His primary Dr said she personally would not put a loved one through chemo and radiation that was in his condition. She did however move forward with referrals to the oncologists. After my brother and I received the news and knew the appts had been made for July 6. We booked a 75′ houseboat on Lake Powell for the entire family to spend a vacation together. We have camped and fished Lake Powell many years as a family and want to do this for my Dad and for us while he is still functional to do so. The problem is….telling him. Yes, we will have his primary care Dr do that but the decision for Chemo and Radiation is all together another issue. At best it will be pallitive for him. We don’t know if the chemo oncologist will even determine if he will be able to tolerate chemo given all his health issues but won’t discuss it with me until he see’s my Father. There is a part of me that does not want to tell him that he has 2-4 months without any radiation or chemo. There’s a part of me that feels like he would want to fight the fight. Then there’s the part that just wants my Dad to enjoy as much of the time he has left doing what he loves and that is being with his family and fishing. Any insight or recommendation of treatment or lack of would be greatly appreciated. I am just at a loss…